Obama Bars Press from Press Award Ceremony
You couldn’t make up stuff like this.
Barack Obama was elected commander in chief promising to run the most transparent presidential administration in American history.
This achievement and the overall promise of his historic administration caused the National Newspaper Publishers Assn. to name him “Newsmaker of the Year.”
The president is to receive the award from the federation of black community newspapers in a White House ceremony this afternoon.
The Obama White House has closed the press award ceremony to the press.
UPDATE at 3/20/09 11:25:09 am:
The National Newspaper Association, despite its innocuous name, is actually an association of far-left publications that includes “Final Call” — the paper published by Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam: NNPA - Article - member papers.
And that explains why Obama doesn’t want the mainstream press at this award ceremony.
(Hat tip: Zimriel.)
Frank says: